POWER BOARD.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20314, 13 August 1931, Page 3

POWER BOARD.

sprlngs-ellesmere. The monthly meeting ol li.o i.V.i iiig*.Eihiiiierc Electric Power Boar;! was lield at Lee's ton on Monday, when• (ij.'n; were present: Me.srs A. E. Langdale Hunt (chairman),. G. Maginness, K. 11. liOivell, If. Neave. and .1.1. T Mc.Mii.iau. •lie engineer, Mr L. .0: Yicary, repotted that the sales of current for .last inonth a.s compared with the corresponding month of last yeaP showed an increase in -lighting-of- 3218 units, representing £34 Vs lOd in : revenue; an increase in heating of 2503,. representing £26 IDs 2d; and'a decrease in power oi' (}o'2o ■units, representing £.'22 ISs Bd. Tho chairman and engineer reported having conferred with Mr I*. MacGio.boji, .•electrical - engineer -to the Public Works Department, in reference to the sppply of current to certain ' Government institutions. Subsequent to. the interview, a letter setting-out the posi--'tio« from the .Board's point ol view had been sent to -Mr Mac Gibbon, bnt n had not been received. The financial .statement tlie re\cnue for tlie month as £2179 17s Ixi (general lighting £IOB2 10s sd, healing and cooking £'BB3 10s. power £.59] 1-1-ff 8<1), and the expenditure as- £-107 4s (3d (eosi:. of current, £717 18.5.8d.,v. Mr R. Wall,, secretary'Lo. the , rl : ivi'ii>ttor- Hall Company," Ltd.; appliej^rpr. a reduction in the-charges for rial! lighting. Mr McMillan pointed out that' the engineer already considering' the rates for churches and other .such buildings, and lie suggested that the matter of hall lighting should also be investigated. This was agreed to. . .The opi'ings County Council wrote pointing out that steel.poles 011 Waterliolcs road constituted a "danger owing to the ease with' which they could ho elimhcd. Tho letter'-was received, if. being stated that danger 'notices had been erected. Tho Board decided that it could not make a donation this year to the Couiv tennv • Agricultural and Pastcral Association's special prize fund.